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Sodom and Gomorrah are two of the five "cities of the plain" referred to in Genesis 13:12 and Genesis 19:29 that rebel against Chedorlaomer of Elam, to whom they were subject. At the Battle of Siddim , Chedorlaomer defeats them and takes many captives, including Lot , the nephew of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham .
Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants, prompting Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. Though Lut left the city, his wife was asked to be left behind by angels hence died during the destruction. [26] The Quran defines Lot as a prophet, and holds that all prophets were examples of moral and spiritual rectitude.
Genesis chapters 18 and 19 are concerned with the immorality of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the judgement that must be imposed. The New International Version (NIV) of Genesis 19:4–5 reads: Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
Lot and His Daughters by Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1635-38. The daughters of the Islamic prophet Lot appear in chapter 13 of the Tafsir Al Qurtubi, in two connected stories.. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him childr
Another view in the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 19:26, is that when Lot's wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of salt upon the "sight of God" descending to rain destruction upon Sodom and Gomorrah. [1]: 467 One reason given in the tradition is that she looked behind her to see if her daughters, married to men of Sodom, were coming or not.
Though Lut was not born among the people he'd been sent to preach to, the people of Sodom are still regarded as his "brethren" (Arabic: إِخْوَٰن, romanized: ikhwān) in the Qur'an. [5] Like the Biblical narrative, the Qur'an states that Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants of the cities, and Sodom and Gomorrah were ...
Some biblical scholars argue that this was the site of "Sodom". [4] Other archaeologists disagree. [5] Unlike the neighboring ruins of Numeira, Bab edh-Dhra does not appear to have been destroyed by a significant fire. [6] Numeira and Bâb edh-Dhrâʿ were destroyed at different
Lot prevents Sodomites from raping the angels, by Heinrich Aldegrever, 1555 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, John Martin, 1852 The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis does not explicitly identify homosexuality as the sin for which they were destroyed.